After 7weeks, 5days of receiving applications from tens
of thousands of Nigerian youths, N-power 2017 Application comes to an
end today.
The job application portal will formally close by 11:59PM July 27, 2017, while the online assessment test continues till August 31,2017.
N-power portal opened June 3, and was initially meant to close by July 3, but the Acting President Yemi Osinbajo extended it till July 27 to give more Nigerians opportunity to take part in the exercise.
As at July 4, Npower 2017 had received 2.45million applications.
That is expected to have risen. No one knows by what figure.
But
the 2017 which is the second phase of the job initiative of Federal
Government of Nigeria was well received considering its unprecedented
success since it was launched over a year ago.
200,000 young Nigerians are currently in the FG's payroll with N30,000monthly stipend, which payment started December 2016.
The 2017 second phase is targeting another 300,000 more unemployed graduates.
It's Non-graduate programme is expected to kick-start few weeks away.